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For anyone who is in USC's OT program, remember the Frontline episode you have watched during your Gerontology class? Well, the three clips (though this is from one episode... and like the previous news documentary articles I posted, please watch them in sequence to get the full picture of what's...

A scenario I thought about earlier this semester turned out to arrive sooner than I expected in this level 1 fieldwork I am doing now. After all, one thing I wanted to practice during my fieldwork experiences is to use either Cantonese and/or Mandarin in these settings, no matter it's level 1 or...

I don't know about the rest of my classmates. But, I have the following take on my classes. The one I am going to mention in this is the Pediatrics Development class. Personally, I love the Pediatrics Development class. I say that because it's a class where I could put what I have seen or...

http://www.mediachinese.com/node/7167?tid=15 Due to the demands of fieldwork as well as my new responsibility as AAPOTA Student Committee Chair, I have not really keep up with reading Hong Kong news as often as I should. So, I decided to take advantage of the long weekend and catch up. Little did...

I made this closing comment in my Daily Dilemmas class yesterday- "There's a big difference between hearing an illness experience of a stranger, to an illness experience of a loved one, to yourself." I really mean what I said because what I personally experienced in the last two-plus months...

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100714/3/j632.html To those of you who are practicing OT as well as students who might have heard a lecture or two about falls and falls prevention, this article will be a sad reminder why falls prevention is EXTREMELY (notice how I put it in all caps) important. Of...

For a person who doesn't watch a lot of TV except sports, I think it would be a little surprising that I am writing in aspects of TV that I don't know too well. So, I am crossing my fingers to see how good a post I write this time outside my personal comfort zone. I was trying to find some...

Imagine you and/or your loved one(s) is/are victims of a malicious act- whether it's by someone familiar or not, the malicious act will change the surviving victims' lives forever in many ways. For this particular news documentary, one thing all these innocent victims have in common is that they...

Centennial Vision. What does it mean to us as future OTs/OTAs and practicing OTs/OTAs? The question is, how can it help those who hate their jobs in this field and yet continue practicing? Some of these therapists may be highly competent or incompetent, but the characteristic that they may be sharing...

Aside from Math, I should be known for pulling out blogging topics off stuff from Hong Kong. Silliness aside, this is a very fascinating video (which again is part of a news documentary episode) that is related to the readiness for change theory (precontemplation -> contemplation -> preparation...

I did my most recent fieldwork at West Anaheim Extended Care TRC. It's a place where mental health consumers would be getting themselves to hopefully transition into the next stage of care, which would be board and care. I at first didn't know what to expect. In fact, I actually was hoping...

A little less than two months and a year of OT school would have been passed! Time sure flies, I would say. I am making this post more or less as a self reflection on in terms of where I am at this OT journey, considering the first year is set to end in less than 2 months. I decided to split it into...

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100325/4/h766.html Above is a news article I found where it talked about a mom bringing her 5-year old son to an illegal gambling hall in Hong Kong. (Of course, that mom got arrested along with people who were there.) Gambling is a touchy subject. Aside from the...

Because of the school work and my new position as student committee chair of AAPOTA, I have becoming more vigilant on my balance of work, rest, and play. For me, this "balance problem" comes from the fact that I could be taking up too many responsibilities that I am passionate about at one...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 What a quick three days and a half at conference! Relative to the rest of my OT school students, I consider myself a “conference veteran” even though...

Families caring for a child that require special needs is one thing. Families caring for an adult with special needs that originated from childhood is a different ball game. The news documentary above primarily featured two adults who had cognitive disorders since childhood. One of them is ...

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100404/4/hcf8.html Above is a very heartwarming story, as evident by the title (albeit it's through my best shot at translating). Again, this article is in Chinese so... I basically made a summary of this article. The story started out when the 90-year old lady...

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/14-year-old-autistic-boy-charged-051210 I am sure some of the news junkies in the OT community will be wondering the same thing when you read this news... especially if you have attended at least one autism workshop during the AOTA conference or are a person who...

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100704/23/izvl.html Above is actually a very interesting article. This article is actually about Hong Kong young adults become over reliant on their parents. Here are some key reasons for this phenomenon. 1. Their parents used their connections to help them find...

(If you are one of my OT classmates, this is my "unedited" version of what I am going to turn in for the PsychoSoc class.) For our PsychoSoc class this week, we are doing our Hearing Voices workshop. Basically, this experience allows us to have a sense of what a schizophrenia client might...

Above are two YouTube clips that will demonstrate what I am going to talk about in this entry. I apologize for the fact that it's in Cantonese. But, in this case, seeing the clips will give you some sort of clue. At what cost do parents want a super genius? This is a question that some of us have...

This title actually sums up my mood for this week. For a happy-go-lucky person like me, having any sort of "down" note is unusual for me (save for receiving news of a bad test score or two). After deliberation, I decided to do both... starting with the somber note first. Tuesday started...